There goes the Lunar neighborhood

Started by besilarius, August 06, 2019, 06:36:58 PM

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besilarius

"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

al_infierno

In a few hundred thousand (or million or billion or whatever) years, they will be studying our ruins wondering where the hell we all went wrong.   :dreamer:
I was waiting for a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one.

Con

The wonders of the internet are amazing


Sir Slash

And that Tardigrade poo will take the paint off your Lunar Rover in an instant. Plus, not even Tide can take it out of white space suit.  :hide:
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

JasonPratt

BREAKING! -- 21st century scientists are astonished to discover that flying to the moon is super-hard, can easily end in unexpected catastrophes; still want to archive things there, like that would be useful.

::)
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Tpek

I actually considered posting (and joking) about it.

It would be interesting to see the repercussions of this over a  hundred  years from now.

JasonPratt

Well, they have nothing to eat, presumably, beyond whatever was sent with them; and no way to travel; so I'd say the repercussions of them being there in a hundred years are likely to be nothing beyond "Hey most of these things are dead and the others are still hibernating."
ICEBREAKER THESIS CHRONOLOGY! -- Victor Suvorov's Stalin Grand Strategy theory, in lots and lots of chronological order...
Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
RobO Q Campaign Generator -- archived classic CMBB/CMAK tool!